The work would now take all the research done to date and move into a much more practical and collaborative design process to design funds that can be delivered under the new strategy.
This will be participative and collaborative process - looking to walk the walk of a ‘co-operative funder’ and design the funds in a co-operative way.
We will design the process so that it involves young people, those with lived experience of some of the issues we might work on and those who would be at the other end of our funding processes. We would design it around them.
The process would follow and ideation and iteration journey, using the practical research from the previous stage to inform an inspire us.
We would do this through:
A series of 3 design workshops to analyse the research, and to then ideate and create potential new funds. These would then be written up into ‘prototype’ funds which we will iterate and develop with colleagues, funded partners and young people In order to do this the following tasks will be needed:
A timeline of these activities is set out here
Planning of the design process
3 design sessions with colleagues, partners and young people
Write up of rough ideas and propositions to be tested and iterated
Iteration - interviews with 6 funded partners
Iteration - Survey for funded partners to get their feedback
Iteration - interviews with key internal colleagues
Writing of final funds into operational plan
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